====== Haute Horlogerie ======
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The term **Haute Horlogerie**, literally translated, means //high art of watchmaking//. It is used since the [[quartz crisis]] at the end of the [[1970]]'s and beginning of the [[1980]]'s, for the renewed tradition of high-class [[mechanical watch]]es. Specifically it includes the competence to manufacture challenging [[complication]]s.

Examples of this feat are [[Rattrapante]] (or [[split seconds]]) [[chronograph]], [[flyback]] chronograph, [[moon phase]], [[tourbillon]], [[perpetual calendar]], [[minute repeater]], [[alarm watch]], [[world timer]], [[astronomical watch]] and [[equation of time]]. In the upper luxury segment, there are models that unite several of these complications in one watch.

To maintain the tradition of the **Haute Horlogerie** the [[Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie]] was founded in [[2005]] in Switzerland by well-known watch companies. Afterwards a further number of known producers joined.

Closely connected with the //Haute Horlogerie// is the competence of a largely self-concepted production of watches, including watch and case, as is encountered with watch [[manufacture]]s.


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